Dougout Doug (that's what he was called)--a legend in his own mind. On the other hand, he was pretty smart. The Inchon landing caught the NK/Chinese by surprise.
Eisenhower couldn't stand him.
Never heard of Patton having his troops disarmed.
Reminds me of Chicago police not being allowed to have guns off-duty.
Dugout Doug played little part in the planning of the Inchon landing other than approving it with the admonition to the real planners that if it were unsuccessful that he would place all of the blame on them. He had wanted a direct attack that would have been easily seen and thrown the troops into a huge meat grinder and considered the sea wall landing too risky, for his image.
For once, unlike his decisions with Peleliu and the Phillipine campaign, he went with the solution that worked well.
The only reason he was called “Dugout Doug” was because he was ordered to leave the Phillipines before the Japs overran Bataan.
Read William Manchester’s book on MacArthur, “American Caesar”, you get the good along with the bad.
By the way his casualty rate compared with other Theaters of Operations was lower than most.
According to my late father, neither could a lot of his troops.